Johann Friedrich Blumenbach: Quick Facts


Facts

Born May 11, 1752 • Gotha • Germany
Died January 22, 1840 (aged 87) • Göttingen • Germany
Subjects Of Study taxonomy • human being

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Franz Weidenreich
German anthropologist
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Johannes Müller
German physiologist
Lankester, Edwin Ray
Sir Edwin Ray Lankester
British zoologist
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
Georges Cuvier
Georges Cuvier
French zoologist
Richard Leakey
Richard Leakey
Kenyan anthropologist, government official, and paleontologist
Louis S.B. Leakey
Louis Leakey
Kenyan archaeologist and anthropologist
William Henry Flower
William Henry Flower
British zoologist
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Kathy Reichs
American author and forensic anthropologist
Albrecht von Haller, detail of an engraving by Ambroise Tardieu after a portrait by Sigmund Freudenberger
Albrecht von Haller
Swiss biologist
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Aleš Hrdlička
American anthropologist
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Raymond A. Dart
South African anthropologist
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William W. Howells
American anthropologist
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Earnest A. Hooton
American anthropologist
Broca, Paul
Paul Broca
French anthropologist and pathologist
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Edward W. Gifford
American anthropologist
Monboddo, detail of an engraving by R. Stainier, late 18th century, after a portrait by J. Brown
James Burnett, Lord Monboddo
Scottish jurist and anthropologist
Sir Arthur Keith, detail of a pencil drawing by William Rothenstein, 1928; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Arthur Keith
Scottish anthropologist
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Anders Adolf Retzius
Swedish anatomist and anthropologist